41-foot house boat sinks, no injuries

6:14 AM,
Jan. 14, 2014

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Written by

Patrick O?Neill
Staff Writer

Chuck Bruckelmeyer was at work Thursday night when his across-the-river neighbor called to say "the boat looks funny."

The call came in at 6 p.m. By the time Bruckelmeyer made it home from work an hour later, his 41-foot house boat was about one-third submerged in the Muskingum River.

"I just kind of stood here on the dock and watched it sink," Bruckelmeyer said. "There was nothing I could do at that point. It was taking on water in a whole bunch of places where it wasn't supposed to." ...